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Theres an island named Maui in the South Pacific that boast world class views, recreation, and climate. The climate on the island is perfect for agriculture and grows some of the best coffee in the world. Industrial farming on the island has recently put these ecosystems at...
12 min
From the anthology Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love
I hesitate to start an essay with definitions as if I could compel you with force of logic to accept conclusions that follow irrefutably from premises. Nor would that be very sexy: an imposition rather...
Charles Eisenstein
The model takes the idea of farm-to-table to the next level.
Joseph Erbentraut
While we marvel at Nasa’s discoveries, we destroy our irreplaceable natural resources – so we can buy pre-peeled bananas and smartphones for dogs
George Monbiot
Land of corn is a documentary film about four environmental and land rights defenders from Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Honduras who work in an extremely dangerous environment and risk their lives, their freedom and the safety of their families because of the work they do...
25 min
In the 1990's the Nuxalk Nation engaged in a campaign of direct action, to stop logging on their traditional lands, also known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Nuxalk Hereditary Chief Qwatsinas, was at the forefront of this struggle.
3 min
Streaming giant Netflix recently launched Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, a 90-minute documentary financed via the crowd-funding site Indiegogo and executive-produced by Hollywood star Leonardo di Caprio. It is the latest in a short line of factual features promoted by...
Alison Homewood
The Unist’ot’en camp in North-Western British Colombia, Canada, is front and centre in a global battle for climate and energy justice.
Since 2011 they have been maintaining a check-point controlling access through their territory to stop government and industry plans to build...
24 min
This short film which shows you an extremely important reason why you should take marine pollution seriously.
3 min
A beautifully told tale of a couple living peacefully in the countryside until one day an explosion rocks their world.
8 min
Beautifully edited by Roen Horn this slice of natural wonder is set to the music of Karen O.
2 min
Retracing rare earth elements, which are widely used in high end electronics and green technologies, to their origins. The film, developed with photographer Toby Smith, documents their voyage from container ships and ports, wholesalers and factories, back to the banks of a...
2 min
Here and Now weaves together social justice, land conservation, human history, and scientific knowledge into a cohesive and moving story about what’s possible by working together. We learn about four innovative partnerships between Native Americans and land conservation...
18 min
On this episode we present Juã and Rômulo, two young men who show that environmental services are the consequence of a good agriculture.
15 min
The drastic consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives. The face of the world is changing, because of us.
28 min
Let's just say, just purely hypothetically of course, I know it's completely ridiculous but what if we had, only ONE planet, just one. One planet to live on. One planet to breathe and eat from. One planet to make our day upon, make our way upon, make our cities upon, to sink...
5 min
We've drained our planet's stored energy, scientists say, with no rechargeable plug in sight.
Andrew Nikiforuk
Publication that gives grants to scientists goes from non-profit to for-profit under Fox umbrella.
Xeni Jardin
If you live amongst society today it’s nearly a guarantee that you are causing some amount of environmental harm via your transportation. How much is largely up to you. There is no one size fits all solution to environmental destruction caused by getting yourself around so...
Rob Greenfield
Climate Deadline is an ambitious documentary in the making, taking us from the UN climate talks in Durban in 2011 (COP17) to COP21 in Paris this December, where this project will be finalised and the nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty is being...
69 min
Author and humourist PG Wodehouse once wrote that “it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine”. He was absolutely right when it came to American presidential hopeful and property mogul Donald Trump’s attempts to insinuate...
Gavin Foster
Trees 'store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services'
Andrea Germanos
This article proposes a new concept of “biocultural rights” that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and cultural resources. The concept of biocultural rights combines nature with culture; takes...
Cher Weixia Chen and Michael Gilmore
When Arizona Sen. John McCain met with the Navajo Nation’s tribal government earlier this month at their capital in Window Rock, Arizona, after arriving in a big black SUV, he believed he would be spending the day observing the commemoration of Code Talkers Day. This was not...
William Rivers Pitt
Humanity, after taking over the driver’s seat of evolution, has crashed it into the brick wall of industrial civilization.
Arun Gupta
Ocean plastic has been ingested by 90 percent of all seabirds alive today, a new study finds, and the problem is still getting worse. But it's not too late to intervene, researchers say.
Russell McLendon
A much-anticipated book in conservation and natural science circles is EO Wilson’s Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, which is due early next year. It builds on his proposal to set aside half the Earth for the preservation of biodiversity.
The famous biologist and...
William Lynn
This summer, seismic blasting in Arctic waters is being conducted on behalf of companies like Shell, looking for oil beneath the seabed. Blasts from 16 massive airguns are emitted every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, these blasts are 8 times louder than a jumbo...
1 min
The Peruvian Amazon, which encompasses some 300,000 square miles, is an extremely biodiverse landscape larger than the state of Texas. For its size, it is very sparsely inhabited – it takes up 60% of Peru's landmass but is only home to about 5% of the country's 30 million...
7 min
Set in the world of a spoofed prescription drug commercial, Nature Rx offers a hearty dose of laughs and the outdoors - two timeless prescriptions for whatever ails you. Side effects may include confidence, authenticity, remembering you have a body, and being in a good mood...
2 min
Motherboard dives head first into the R+D world surrounding the development of fungi as a viable replacement for plastic, and the people who hope it can lead to a better and more sustainable future.
11 min
This week we bring you nihilistic news from the climate front plus an update on the revolt in Turkey following the suicide bombing of Rojava supporters. Watch the rest of this show on the SubMedia site.
6 min
This intimate, heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale of misery, despair and triumph.
3 min
On 15 August 1500 people took part in a daring act of civil disobedience to shut down Europe's biggest source of CO2 emissions. Around 1000 people successfully entered the coal mine and all of the diggers in the pit were brought to a standstill.
3 min
A deeply moving journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food and life upside down in an amazingly simple and poetic way.
2 min
The 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest judges reviewed nearly 18,000 photographs. These ten pictures won the top prizes.
National Geographic
Momenta is a film and movement founded to educate, raise awareness, and activate communities to stop all proposed coal exports in the Pacific Northwest. We are dedicated to rethinking fossil fuels, their impact on climate and environment, and accelerating the clean energy...
38 min
At the UN's World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa, in September, policymakers, industry and others will debate the 'sustainable future' of forests and people. But there can be no sustainable future until the UN and governments accept that real forests have nothing...
Rainforest Rescue
How is it that we didn't know why the ocean was salty until 1979? National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Bob Ballard explains why such a basic question remained a mystery for so long-and where his team finally found the answer.
1 min
The Official trailer for Blood Lions, a documentary that exposes the terrible truth behind the predator breeding and canned lion hunting industries in South Africa.
2 min
In Margaret Atwood’s powerful essay [It’s Not Climate Change — It’s Everything Change] on the reality of climate change — and its implications for the future of oil-dependent industrial civilization — she tells two vastly distinct stories of our future.
Nafeez Ahmed
In May I was lucky enough to be invited to document an amazing event in Yosemite National Park. It was a campfire discussion on improving the diversity of both the visitation and the employment within our parks and wild spaces. It was a gathering of extraordinary people from...
8 min
Late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel got choked up Tuesday night as he summed up all the things wrong with Cecil the lion's murder in Zimbabwe earlier this month.
4 min
This documentary identifies and explains this impending Ecocide. Jaki and Jose and the 15 people still living in Los Perales are facing displacement and loss of their livelihoods. The reason - industrial agriculture. Oldest inhabitant 93 years old - youngest 4 years old...
15 min
The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘wilderness’ as; an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region. Whilst travelling around Scotland, I encountered both city and country folk who labelled the NW coast as a wilderness. This film and question was born out of a...
3 min
Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, the sine qua non in all we do! Can’t live with it, can’t — right at this moment — live without it. But it’s on everyone’s mind.
Margaret E. Atwood
ʻĀINA (pronounced "eye-nah") means "That Which Feeds Us" in the Hawaiian language. The film highlights a way to address some of the most pressing environmental and health crises facing the island of Kauai - and of island Earth.
That may sound like an outstanding claim, but...
22 min
'With this decision, President Obama has given Shell an open invitation to turn the Chukchi Sea into an energy sacrifice zone,' said Marissa Knodel of Friends of the Earth
Sarah Lazare
People across Australia are standing their ground for nature. There's a lot at stake, but we're ready to face the challenge together. It's not just our iconic landscapes and spectacular natural places that need protecting, Australians must work together to minimise the...
9 min
This is a video produced by National Geographic Television and the Jane Goodall Institute to honor Dr. Goodall.
3 min
Alihuen means Big Tree in the language of the indigenous Mapuche peoples of Chile. When Jeroen decided to settle in the rural Chepu province of Chiloe with his wife Grecia, this name was not taken lightly, for the farmland which it would represent has undertaken massive...
31 min
When current science news is filled with pictures — incredible, beautiful, literally awesome pictures — of planetary bodies 3 billion miles away, it's easy to forget what's happening on the soil beneath our own feet.
Max Plenke
Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of food we don't eat. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
18 min
Would you stop showering if it meant that was the only way you could keep eating beef? California's ongoing drought needs radical action. But in a state dependent on water-hungry meat production, it would be politically dangerous to suggest eating less beef. Activists the Yes...
11 min
Last week, Pope Francis and church officials encouraged everyone to consume less and think more about our impact on the environment.
Michael McCutcheon
How does overfishing affect you and the planet you live in? This short film quickly explains the food chain of the sea and how overfishing affects more than just our ability to eat certain kinds of fish.
3 min
A feature-length, multi-award winning documentary by Alanis Obomsawin set in the thick of the armed confrontation between Mohawks and Canadian government forces during the 1990 standoff in the Mohawk village of Kanehsatake near the village of Oka in Quebec. The two-and-a-half...
120 min
An extract of an interview with indigenous militant Gord Hill, who breaks down just what the fuck happened during the so called "Oka Crisis"
5 min
This is a special edition of the Fishbones climate change animation, dedicated to the occassion of the International Climate Top in Paris 2015 -- otherwise known as COP21. Fishbones is an animated short explaining the most fundamental thing you need to know about what climate...
1 min